Ethics, Legalities and Biases in Human Development Research

Can you give me a description of ethical and legal considerations in conducting research in human development? Also explain how you would identify and reduce gender and racial biases when conducting such research.
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Considerations when conducting research:

(1) Description of ethical and legal considerations in conducting research in human development.

Psychologists’ reluctance in conducting research within moral guidelines is the centrality of moral compliant underlying research studies and serves to distort both theories and findings (Haan, 1994). According to Sirgy (2008), research on morality cannot be conducted without some notion of what morality is. For example, in terms of scientific research, moral traditions and norms are related to the agreement that people make in regards to one another. Further, they assert that analogous to animals, human are altruistic to the degree they must depend on others. However, Hans asserts that while biology is important, primarily human beings depend on social interactions and change their minds both psychologically and socially. Therefore biology cannot explain their complex moral system. Thus, from the standpoint of social science, morality in scientific research is based on a common moral agreement by people across …